The 80/20 rule for your whole life - by Yew Jin Lim
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On building a boring foundation and a laboratory on top
About Life The 80/20 rule for your whole life On building a boring foundation and a laboratory on top Yew Jin Lim Feb 17, 2026 1,167 35 169 Share In 2012, I was a junior engineer at Google with an experimental code folder larger than most engineers’ entire code contributions. (Not that LoC is the right metric to look at, especially not these days!) That same year, I owned 110,000 shares of a company called Converted Organics. Total value: $110. One tenth of a penny per share. These two facts are related. Around the same time, I was sitting in a room learning Tibetan meditation from a teacher w
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